Fink's Links #53

It's link time!

Let's get things moving by learning that the Apollo 17 moon buggy was repaired (while on the moon) using gaffer tape (or duct tape as the Americans put it)...(cue Flyingpops saying "I told you it was useful!" while trying to cram even more rolls into an already full cupboard in the camper van)... [pics and video in article]

Listen to the Dr Who theme tune played on the Tesla Coil (yes, you read that right)...! [video]

Check out some Bento boxes that will probably end up starving you to death (as they are too incredible to actually eat)! [pics]

Nasty Goose vs Good Natured Dog! [video]

Discover why plasma TV's are on the verge of vanishing!

Learn how to make battery cells that happily recharge themselves! [pics in the procedure]

Whatever next?! Yep, a doggie seatbelt to allow you fluffy friend to ride in the passenger seat!

A rather scary politcal cartoon entitled "If you spent a million dollars a day"...

Check out some photographs from inside Guantánamo Bay... [pics]

An amazing photo of a lit lightbulb shattering... [pic]

Water torture!!! [pic] ;)

Sad cat is sad, but it's okay because happy shark is happy! [pics]

If the internet has an ultimate purpose, then this is probably close to it - learn how to turn your urine blue (should you ever have the need to)...

A photo entitled "PEW PEW PEW"... [pic] ;)

...and finally, a hilarious merchandising fail and a face-palmingly good education fail...

If you are still bored, my previous links can be found over in this direction...!

Enjoy Saturday and Sunday!

RSS Feeds - my favorites

Not sure how many people really use RSS feeds, I know I am a total addict (this is the only reason I always have a list of fun links on a Friday), mostly because you don't have to go out actually searching for "what's new" out there, it comes to you (as it's breaking), but also because it's like a mini archive, so I can graze my way back through time (when I have some on my hands) without fear that anything interesting has managed to slip by without my knowledge...the feed reader I tend to use (tried out Google reader but it's not quite as good) is Sharpreader, which sits politely in the tool bar, and whenever anything interesting happens it informs me with a small blue box (containing the headline) at the bottom right of my desktop (which vanishes a second later)...

So, and feel free to ignore me, but I thought I would share some of the feeds that I graze upon...(and of course, if you have any great feeds to share with me, then leave a comment)!

Blogs
Boing Boing - normal feed
Boing Boing Gadgets - Latest
dannychoo.com - portal to Japan
Dictionary.com - Word of the Day
Digg.com - Most popular submissions
The Empire Blog - Movie rants feed
Fark.com - normal feed
Gizmodo UK - Latest Gadgets
Instructables - Featured items
Lolcats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Photoshop Disasters - Begun, this clone tool has
Reddit.com - What's new
Stephen Fry - Blessays feed
The Daily WTF Perversions in IT - normal feed
The FAIL Blog - normal feed
Times Archive Blog - normal feed -

Breaking News
Sky News - Breaking News

Movie News
Empire - News feed
Times Online - Film News feed
Guardian Unlimited - Film News feed
TheOneRing.net - Hobbit Film News feed

News
BBC News - News Front Page feed
Canary Wharf - News feed
CNN.com - Front page feed
ThisisLondon - London News feed
Daily Express - Latest News Feed
getsurrey - Top Stories feed
Guardian Unlimited - Latest news feed
Mirror.co.uk - Latest News and Headlines feed
Telegraph News - All News feed
The Mail online - UK Breaking
The Mail online - World news
Times Online - Top stories feed

Oddly Enough
Times Online - Most Curious Stories feed
Reuters - Oddly Enough feed

Science News
APOD - Daily Astronomy Picture
BBC News - Science/Nature feed
New Scientist - Latest Headlines
New York Times - Science feed
News@Nature - Most Recent feed
Polymeme - Science feed

Sport News
BBC Sport - Formula One News
Times Online - Formula One

Tech News
BBC News - Technology feed
Electricpig.co.uk - News feed
Hack a Day - Fresh Hacks feed
Slashdot - News for nerds
Times Online - Tech and Web
Wired - Top Stories

Misc
Dilbert - Daily strip
Edge Online - Latest News and Features
GamerBlips - Gaming News
Metacritic.com - Nintendo DS
Metacritic.com: PSP
Metacritic.com: Xbox 360
Museum of Hoaxes - Investigations Feed
Snopes.com - New Urban Legends
Quotes of the Day - normal feed
xkcd.com - webcomic feed

So there we go, now you know how very little escapes me (while I'm next to an internet connected computer, anyway)... ;)